Hello list,

I have a question about OSSEC log file monitoring . I have configured
OSSEC to monitor a file log which I populate with the output of a
script. I have also created accompanying decoder and alert rules.
Every configuration works as expected , but there is a strange
problem, that OSSEC misses on some entries  like losing events.

For example : if we have 10 entries of the same event , Ossec may have
missed 2 or 3 out of them .

Also this seems to be a frequency problem . For example If I add each
entry with a delay between them , a couple of secs , OSSEC catches all
of them .But if I enter them all at once, as the script does , OSSEC
misses some of them.

Is there a way to check how OSSEC reads the log file and why it misses
some of the entries ?

I have to note that the log file does not have a date for each entry ,
as I am not interested as to when the event happened , but rather if
the event repeated x times .

Thank you

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